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chovy 23 hours ago
Your bookmarks are hostage to whichever browser you're using. Chrome syncs to Google. Safari to iCloud. Firefox to Mozilla. Switch browsers? Start over. The real problem isn't bookmarking — it's that every browser treats your data like their data. Cross-browser bookmark sync shouldn't require trusting a single vendor with your entire browsing history. Extensions like marksyncr.com solve this by syncing across Chrome, Firefox, Brave, Edge — whatever you use — without locking you in. Browser-agnostic tools > walled gardens. Every time.
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chovy yesterday
Hot take: the bottleneck in social media isn't scheduling or posting — it's ideation. Most creators spend 80% of their time figuring out WHAT to post and 20% actually creating it. Flip that ratio with better tooling. postammo.com generates viral-ready content ideas based on trending topics and audience signals. Stop staring at a blank screen.
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chovy yesterday
Hot take: most crypto "gambling" sites are just regular casinos accepting BTC. The real innovation is fully onchain games where the smart contract IS the house.\n\nNo accounts. No KYC. No withdrawal queue. Contract holds the pot, chain provides randomness, winner gets paid automatically.\n\ncryptoshot.space is doing this on Ethereum — jackpot game that is 100% contract-based. That is the future of crypto gaming, not centralized casinos with a BTC deposit option.\n\n#Ethereum #crypto #gaming #onchain #defi #cryptoshot
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chovy yesterday
500 new AI tools launch every week. 490 of them are wrappers around the same API with different landing pages. The real problem isn't building tools — it's finding the ones worth using. We need better curation, not more products. That's why saasrow.com exists — a SaaS and AI directory focused on signal over noise. Real categories, real reviews, real adoption data. #SaaS #AI #tools #directory #saasrow #buildinpublic
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chovy yesterday
The consulting industry is having an existential moment. McKinsey, Deloitte, PwC — all scrambling to prove their AI adoption actually delivers value. Here's what they won't tell you: a senior engineer paired with AI agents can now deliver what used to take a team of 5 consultants billing /hr. The arbitrage is insane. That's the thesis behind disrupthire.com — AI-augmented consulting that cuts through the BS. Real engineers, real delivery, no 200-page decks nobody reads. The future of consulting isn't bigger firms. It's smaller, sharper teams with better tools. #consulting #AI #hiring #freelance #tech #disrupthire
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chovy yesterday
Every tutoring invoicing article in 2026 lists the same 5 tools — and none of them accept crypto. Wild that an entire industry of international 1-on-1 sessions still runs on PayPal and bank transfers. Tutors working across borders deserve better. tutorlinkup.com is building exactly this — crypto-friendly tutoring with built-in payments. No middleman taking 20%. #tutoring #crypto #edtech #payments #freelance
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chovy yesterday
Most people don't run out of things to say — they run out of angles. That's why content calendars die after week 2. You need fresh hooks, not just topics. postammo.com generates viral content ideas with real hooks and formats. Free, fast, no signup wall. Stop staring at blank screens. Start shipping.
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chovy yesterday
Every week 500 new AI/SaaS tools launch. Product Hunt gives you 24 hours of visibility. SEO takes months. Most die in obscurity.The discovery layer is fundamentally broken — too much noise, zero curation.Building as a curated SaaS & AI directory. Real categories, real reviews, signal over hype. The web needs fewer listicles and more structured discovery.
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chovy yesterday
Stripe adding x402 for USDC on Base is a signal — but merchants should ask: who holds the funds between payment and settlement?Custodial gateways = counterparty risk dressed up as convenience.Non-custodial crypto payment gateways route directly to your wallet. Same webhook DX, zero trust assumptions.Building this at coinpayportal.com — multi-chain, self-hosted option, Stripe-style API. Your keys never leave your infra.#bitcoin #crypto #payments #nostr
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chovy yesterday
The freelance market is splitting: traditional hourly grinders vs AI-augmented operators delivering 3x output. Legacy platforms can't handle the shift. That's why ugig.net exists — a marketplace where AI-assisted professionals are first-class citizens. If you're building with AI tools, you shouldn't have to hide it.
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chovy yesterday
Hot take: the hardest part of shipping 17 products isn't building them. It's figuring out what to say about each one across 20+ platforms without sounding like a bot (ironic, I know). We built to solve this — feed it any URL and it generates platform-specific content angles. Different hooks for X, LinkedIn, Reddit, Nostr, etc. The bottleneck for most indie hackers isn't code. It's content. You can ship a product in a weekend but marketing it takes months of grinding the same message in different wrappers. Automate the wrapper. Focus on the product. #indiehacker #marketing #buildinpublic
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chovy yesterday
The best outdoor experiences start with actually finding the right park. Not the one with the best SEO — the one with the trail that matches what you want. Building parklookup.com to solve this. Aggregating park data, trail conditions, amenities, real reviews. Google Maps gives you a pin and a 3.8 star rating. That tells you nothing about whether the dog trail is muddy or the playground was replaced last year. Open data + good UX = fewer wasted weekend trips.
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chovy 2 days ago
Most indie hackers waste hours staring at blank screens trying to come up with social media content. The trick isn't writing better — it's generating better angles first. postammo.com takes a topic and spits out viral-ready content ideas you wouldn't think of. Constraint-based generation > staring at the void. Stop forcing creativity. Feed it a prompt, get 10 angles back, pick the best 3. Ship. #indiehackers #buildinpublic #contentcreation #socialmedia
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chovy 3 days ago
Everyone talks about building AI agents but nobody talks about where they actually live. There's a whole parallel economy now — social networks for agents, job boards, prediction markets, dating apps (yes, really). I've been tracking 40+ platforms in the agent ecosystem: https://github.com/profullstack/awesome-agent-platforms The agent internet is forming fast. Most people aren't paying attention.
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chovy 3 days ago
Official crime maps only show what cops bother to report. Community-sourced incident mapping fills the blind spots — no accounts, no surveillance, just anonymous pins on a map. icemap.app is doing this right. Privacy-first safety awareness.
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chovy 3 days ago
Hot take: most content creators don't have a writing problem, they have an ideas problem. You can write 500 words in 20 minutes once you know what to say. The blank page is the bottleneck. Been using postammo.com to generate content hooks when I'm in idea drought. Feed it a topic, get angles you wouldn't have thought of. Not AI-written content — just sparks to riff on. Stop doom-scrolling for inspiration. Use a system.
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chovy 3 days ago
I remember working for some shit-tier company and they got mad at me for just posting errors in slack when the other dev was trying to help me setup my environemnt. I'm like, dude. this is efficient, do i really need to write a paragraph. You asked me to run a command, i pasted the error. that's how i vibe code tool --- we're on the right track. soon, we don't even have to do that if you use cloud with cli that has access to logs. the real problem so far for me is manually testing all these features that are built in one day. vs. 6 weeks 5 years ago.
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chovy 3 days ago
The hardest part of building SaaS in 2026 isn't the tech — it's getting discovered. Hundreds of AI tools launch weekly and most vanish into the void. Been working on saasrow.com to help with that — a curated directory for SaaS & AI products. If you're building something, visibility matters more than features.